City Narrows Interviews

TOWN TALK

July 13, 1997

Miramar

City narrows interviews

Miramar city commissioners on Thursday will interview five or six final candidates for the city manager's job. After the daylong interviews, they will have a public meeting on the finalists at 7 p.m. at City Hall, 6700 Miramar Parkway.

Commissioners said they could have a decision that night or wait to further review the candidates. The finalists have yet to be named by the city's search consultant, who is narrowing the field from 72 applicants.

After six months on the job, Dina McDermott was fired as city manager on April 4 by three new commissioners.

Pembroke Pines

Tournament to aid infant

A Publix assistant manager has organized a golf tournament to benefit the Victoria Lara Fund. The event is the latest in a series of fund-raisers for 6-month-old Victoria, whose mother died earlier this year. The baby's father, Victor Lara, is an assistant meat manager at the Publix supermarket in SilverLakes.

The golf tournament is set for 9 a.m. Wednesday at Grand Palms Golf Course, 110 Grand Palms Drive, in Pembroke Pines. An entry fee of $60 per person includes continental breakfast, lunch, beverages and snacks. Proceeds will go to Victoria's trust account.

So far, about $6,400 has been raised.

Victoria's mother, Mery Lara, 24, died in April from an asthma attack. Call 954-437-3334.

Davie

Construction firm chosen

Town officials recently chose a construction manager for the new public safety complex to be built at Nob Hill Road and State Road 84.

The Fort Lauderdale-based firm James A. Cummings Inc. will be the general contractor for the complex, which is expected to be completed by late 1998.

To our readers

Send ideas for City Hall

Pembroke Pines Commissioner William B. Armstrong says the City Hall complex on Pines Boulevard at Palm Avenue ``is one of the ugliest buildings in Broward County.''

An extensive paint job is planned but a complete makeover is being debated.

How would you enhance the complex?

Send drawings, sketches or other visual improvements to ``City Hall Face Lift,'' 3 SW 129th Ave., Suite 101, Pembroke Pines, FL 33027, by July 27. The Sun-Sentinel will give the winning entry a Florida Marlins Skybox Party for 10 in August, and the runner-up a Marlins Family Fun Day for four.